Full Fact fights bad information

We’re a team of independent fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm it does.

Full Fact fights bad information

Bad information ruins lives. It promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. You deserve better.

Recent fact checks

We fact checked claims made by Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak as Labour delivered its first Budget statement in 14 years.

Our round-up features verdicts on a number of different topics, including employer National Insurance, bus fares and growth forecasts.

Budget round-up

It’s been claimed an image circulating online compares a “drinker’s brain” with the brain of a “non-drinker”.

This is false. The “drinker’s brain” image is actually a photo of a 2,600-year-old brain found during excavations near York in 2008.

Brain fog

A viral image appears to be an old photo showing US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a McDonald’s uniform.

Ms Harris has said that she worked at McDonald’s in the 1980s, but this image has been edited—the original photo features someone else wearing the uniform.

Faked photo